Wigan Album

Hi,
I remember there being a Heber Street off Ince Green Lane, near to Hook Street, near the old Ince Central school(where Central Flats are now) when I was growing up in Ince.I think Irene Roberts might remember the street.

Fairy Ices was in Moore st Nr. Whelley School and started by Rimmers after they sold out Wigan Dairies. We got a new science teacher at Whelley school about 1947 who learned us how to electro plate. Some pupils ( Nameless) silver plated halfpennies and spent them as shillings(5p) buying ice creams.from Rimmers this resulted in a police enquiry into " Counterfieting "

Like Elizabeth, the only Heber St. in the Wigan area I know is in Higher Ince, just off Hook Street, and I do remember an elderly lady called Mrs. Hidden from around that area; she could have been Frank's mother.

Mrs Hidden lived in one of the four council houses between Heber st and Bird St as Irene said and she was the mother of Frank Hidden.

I do remember Wigan Dairies. The owners were my Uncle Bob & Auntie Edith.